LYNCH, J.
On August 19, 1977, the defendant, Chris Dana Bradshaw, was convicted of murder in the second degree on an indictment charging murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. The defendant filed a claim of appeal in the Appeals Court and we granted his motion for direct appellate review.
The body of Kevin T. Kidd was found in a wooded area near the Abington-Whitman town border on the morning...
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